Potentiality of salt marshes in Mediterranean coastal zone of Egypt

El-Shaer, H. M.; El-Morsy, Mohamed H. E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-7643-8554-5_19

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“…During relatively high rainfall periods; most of species are annuals that flourish during the rainy season. However, during the longer dry periods, the characteristic woody shrubs and perennial herbs constitute the scrub vegetation, scattered sparsely in parts and grouped in denser distinct patches [8,9]. On the other hand, the plant life in the Eastern Desert is much richer than that of the Western Desert.…”

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Vegetation structure and soil characteristics of five common geophytes in desert of Egypt

El‐Amier

2016

Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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Geophytes are kind of plants having the capability to survive under arid environmental conditions; parts of their bodies are dormant fleshy underground as bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes. The present study was designed to throw light on the ecological features of five representative geophytes, namely, Cyperus capitatus, Cyperus conglomeratus, Elymus farctus, Lasiurus scindicus and Panicum turgidum. The soil characteristics and the associated species of these geophytes are described in their natural habitats of coastal desert (Deltaic Mediterranean coast) and inland desert (Cairo-Suez desert road). A total of 119 species (65 perennials, 3 biennials and 51 annuals) belonging to 97 genera and 28 families constituted their floristic composition. Asteraceae, Poaceae, Fabaceae and Chenopodiaceae are the largest families. Therophytes and chamaephytes are the most abundant life forms. The chorological analysis of the study area revealed that 63.02% and 47.33% belong to Saharo-Arabian and Mediterranean taxa, respectively. The highest species richness value (1.42 species stand-1) is recorded in the coastal desert. The application of TWINSPAN analysis yielded six distinct vegetation groups (A, B, C1, C2, D1 and D2); each is linked to one or more of the studied geophyte plants. The main soil factors affecting the study geophytes are electrical conductivity, organic carbon, sulphates, chlorides and bicarbonates as well as its silt composite.

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Vegetation structure and soil characteristics of five common geophytes in desert of Egypt

El‐Amier

2016

Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

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“…Scorpiurus muricatus L. (syn: Scorpiurus subvillosus , Scorpiurus sulcatus ) (common names: prickly scorpion's tail and caterpillar plant) is included in this group of species. It is widely distributed as a spontaneous plant in Mediterranean areas, particularly in Morocco, Algeria, Portugal, Spain, southern France, southern Italy and Sicily (Bensalem et al 1990; Beale et al 1991; Licitra et al 1997), because of its broad tolerance to soil type and pH (Ehrman & Cocks 1990) and its high drought tolerance (El Shaer 1995). Prickly scorpion's tail produces a significant biomass (Le Houérou 2001) of good quality (Licitra et al 1997).…”

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Pheno-morphological and agronomic diversity among Scorpiurus muricatus (Fabaceae) natural populations collected in Sicily

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SU MMARYPrickly scorpion's tail (Scorpiurus muricatus L.) is a self-reseeding annual legume widely distributed in natural pastures of the Mediterranean area and appreciated by farmers for its productivity, forage quality and palatability. Twenty-eight natural populations were collected throughout Sicily in 2005; two field experiments were carried out in 2005/06 in a hilly area of the Sicilian inland to assess the genetic variation based on pheno-morphological and agronomic characters. The phenomorphological traits observed were analysed using a principal component analysis (PCA). The first four components of PCA (eigenvalues >1) explained 0 . 84 of the total variation. Similarities obtained by PCA were investigated by means of cluster analysis, which clearly identified five clusters.The pheno-morphological and agronomic traits were mainly affected by latitude of the collection site (0 . 69 of the correlations were significant), spring rainfall (0 . 63) and rain days per year (0 . 63). Altitude was not significantly correlated with any of the traits.A strong positive correlation was found between the days to the first flower and spring rainfall at the collection site. Populations originating from subhumid or dry-subhumid Mediterranean climate zones showed greater leaf dimensions when compared with those originating from semi-arid zones. Seed weight decreased with increasing number of rain days per year and spring rainfall. Populations from drier environments showed, on the whole, a more prostrate growth habit. Dry matter yield at spring cut exhibited a significant correlation with latitude (positive) and longitude (negative). Seed production was highly correlated with spring rainfall, number of rain days per year and latitude of collection site. The presence of a large diversity among populations appears to be valuable when searching for suitable S. muricatus material to exploit in pastures and crop-livestock farming systems of Mediterranean areas.

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“…Most of the prominent species of the identified vegetation assemblages were halophytic species as Juncus rigidus, Arthrocnemum macrostachyum, Halocnemum strobilaceum, Zygophyllum coccineum, Tamarix nilotica and Phragmites australis. Most of these plants were recorded in salt marches (El-Shaer & El-Morsy, 2008;Abd El-Ghani, 2000;Abd El-Ghani et al, 2017b). Tamarix nilotica was considered one of the climax types of the saltmarsh vegetation (Abd El-Ghani, 2000).…”

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Distribution of Pluchea dioscoridis plant community types in relation to the combined effect of soil and climate

Shahda

El‐Bana

Bous

et al. 2021

Catrina: The International Journal of Environmental Sciences

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Potentiality of salt marshes in Mediterranean coastal zone of Egypt

Cited by 12 publications

References 7 publications

Vegetation structure and soil characteristics of five common geophytes in desert of Egypt

Vegetation structure and soil characteristics of five common geophytes in desert of Egypt

Pheno-morphological and agronomic diversity among Scorpiurus muricatus (Fabaceae) natural populations collected in Sicily

Distribution of Pluchea dioscoridis plant community types in relation to the combined effect of soil and climate

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